30+ Amazing Apple Theme Activities For Kids

Apple themed activities are perfect for the fall season and back to school activities!  There is just something about apples that always puts me in the mood for some fantastic learning activities.  No matter what subject you are currently working on, we have an activity for you and your little learners.  Activities for math, literacy, STEM, art, sensory, and fine motor skills are all included in this amazing list of apple themed activities for preschoolers!

Although apples are normally a Fall or Back to School theme, you can use any of these activities year round!  They are fantastic for supporting whatever concept you are currently teaching and are easily differentiated or modified to meet the needs of learners of all levels.

The most wonderful part of all of these activities – they are simple to set up, the directions are easy to follow, and they can be effortlessly incorporated into your daily classroom or home routine.  With many of these activities you only have to print and assemble them once and then you will have them for years to come.  They can be used over and over again and all you have to do is grab the activity when you are ready for it.  So simple and easy!

Why Should I Use Apple Themed Activities?

I’m sure you know apples are good for your health, but did you know they are also amazing for your mind too?  Check out all of the benefits of using apple themed activities with preschoolers!

Benefits of Using Apple Themed Activities:

Hands on Learning: Apple themed activities are so easy to make hands on and interactive for preschoolers.  No matter if you are doing an art, math, science, or reading activity, it is incredibly easy to make it hands on with an apple theme.  All of these activities have ways to make learning engaging for kids by using apple themed manipulatives, cards, mats, and even actual apples themselves!

Build on Prior Knowledge: Apples are super familiar to preschoolers.  Almost every preschooler I know LOVES apples!  And if they don’t love them, they at least have had some kind of experience with them!  Whether your child has been to an apple orchard to go apple picking, eaten an apple or applesauce, helped pick out an apple at the store, or even just read a book about apples, it is so easy to use these experiences to help them learn and build upon what they already know about apples.

Spark Curiosity: Preschoolers are naturally curious about everything!  My preschooler is full of questions all of the time!  Why do apples fall from trees?  How do you make applesauce?  What are the different types of apples?  Where do apples grow?   Using an apple theme is perfect for preschoolers because it takes something they already have experience with (apples) and builds upon their knowledge and encourages them to keep learning about them!

Those are just some of the many benefits to using apple themed activities in your home or classroom!

30+ Amazing Apple Themed Activities for Kids

Apple Art Activities

Apples are eye catching and a beautiful work of art from nature!  Whether you want to create apple themed art, or create works of art with apples, you are sure to find the activity you are looking for here.  As always, included in this list you will find activities that require minimal set up, need just a few materials, and are super simple to clean up!

1. Melted Bead Suncatchers Apple Crafts for Kids

A suncatcher is a simple and easy way to brighten up any window you have in your home or classroom!  Melted Bead Suncatchers Apple Crafts for Kids are an adorable apple themed suncatcher that makes a beautiful fall decoration for your home.  Beads, cookie cutters, and an oven all help to create this super cute craft!

2. Raised Apple Salt Painting

Salt painting puts a fun twist on a normal painting activity.  This Raised Apple Salt Painting activity will have your child using glue, salt, and paint to create amazing apple artwork with a fun texture that your kids will love to feel once it dries.

3. Art Apple Painting Tips and Tricks

Painting with apples is one of my favorite fall art projects that my preschoolers look forward to every year.  You can make really cool apple prints with paint, an apple, and a fork.  Be sure to check out all of our Art Apple Painting Tips and Tricks for some new ideas and ways to extend the fun and learning when you are painting with apples!

More Apple Themed Art Activities for Kids

• Tissue paper makes beautiful stained glass in this Fall Apple Window Craft.
• Painting with sponges is so much fun in this Sponge Painted Apple activity.
• Make a Stuffed Paper Apple Lacing Craft!
• My kids love marble painting and I’m sure yours will love this Apple Marble Painting.
• We love process art activities!  Try this Apple Stamps Process Art Activity.
•  Make an adorable Apple Pie Paper Plate craft.

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Apple Themed Math Activities

There are so many ways to incorporate apples into math instruction.  Measuring apples, counting apple seeds, and comparing apple sizes are just a few of the many ways we can bring actual apples into math instruction.  Even if you don’t have actual apples on hand, there are still so many ways to use an apple theme to practice math concepts with activities like the ones listed below. All of these math activities make math concepts like shapes, counting, number recognition, and one to one correspondence fun and easy to practice with an adorable apple theme!

1. Free Apple Theme Preschool 2D Shapes Poster Printable

I love classroom decorations that are not only cute, but also double as being educational as well!  This Free Apple Theme Preschool 2D Shapes Poster Printable has colorful apple shaped posters and a fun I Spy game sheet that will have your preschoolers hunting and searching for the matching poster.  Fall classroom decorating and shape instruction has never been easier!

2. Apple Hide and Seek Ten-Frame Counting Game

Hide and seek is one of our favorite games to play!  So, when my preschoolers find out we are going to play an Apple Hide and Seek Ten-Frame Counting Game, they always get super excited!  This math game works great as a whole group math warm up or independent activity.  It is easy to modify it for however it will best fit your needs at home or in the classroom!  Who will be the first to find the hidden apple pie?

3. Free Printable Apple Tree Roll and Count

Roll and count activities are the best for practicing number identification, counting, writing numerals, and the skill of subitizing.  My preschoolers love rolling the dice, counting out the number of apple erasers, and putting them onto the apple tree in this Free Printable Apple Tree Roll and Count.  Don’t worry if you don’t have apple erasers, there are plenty of other options for manipulatives you can use!

4. Free Printable Apple Counting Grids for Preschoolers

Counting grids are another wonderful way for preschoolers to practice their counting skills.  The great news is that these Free Printable Apple Counting Grids for Preschoolers include practice up to ten or twenty for easy differentiation!  Just grab a fun apple themed manipulative, roll the apple dice, and you’re on your way to counting mastery!

5. Apple Tree Addition Activity for Kindergarten

A few materials and some simple set up will have you ready to practice addition with this Apple Tree Addition Activity for Kindergarten.  Kids will love counting out pom poms and adding them to the apple tree cut outs.  This activity provides a great visual and introduction for preschoolers just learning the concept of addition!

6. Apple Mini-Eraser Activities for Preschoolers

Mini-erasers are tiny, cute, and they make the perfect math manipulative for little hands!  This pack of Apple Mini-Eraser Activities for Preschoolers has 12 pages of math activities!  Ten frames, tracing, graphing, patterns, and an I Spy game are just a few of the many activities included in this pack.  There are more than enough apple themed math activities to keep your preschoolers busy all fall long!

7. Fingerprint Apple Counting Activity for Preschoolers

Kids love sticking their fingers in paint, and they will be super happy to find out that in this activity they not only get to put their fingers in paint, but they also get to create apples with their fingerprints!   A Fingerprint Apple Counting Activity for Preschoolers is a great way to work on the skill of counting and add in the hands on activity of making fingerprint apples. 

8. Numbers 0-20 15 Apple Themed Card Games

Card games are one of my favorite ways to work on math skills!  They are interactive, keep kids engaged, and are so much fun!  Grab these Numbers 0-20 15 Apple Themed Card Games to get a bundle full of math card games that are sure to get your kids excited about practicing their math skills.

9. Counting Apples with Preschoolers: Real- Life Math

Practice the skill of one to one correspondence with a Counting Apples with Preschoolers: Real- Life Math activity.  This is a super simple activity to set up and do with preschoolers.  Since they will be moving the apples around with their hands this activity is not only a counting activity, but also is a wonderful activity for fine motor skills, gross motor skills, and sensory development!

10. Free Printable Adding to 10 Apple Tree

This Free Printable Adding to 10 Apple Tree activity is awesome for so many preschool math skills.  The apple trees, basket, and small apples provide a great visual for preschoolers and help bring the addition problems to life.  Preschoolers and kindergartners will love picking the apples off of the tree, adding them to their basket and finding the sum of all of the apples.  Such a great combination of a fine motor and math activity!

11. Free Interactive Apple Ten-Frames

Ten frames are an amazing visual tool that can help preschoolers grasp the concept of the number ten and all of the numbers that can be added together to make ten!  Free Interactive Apple Ten-Frames are a great way to get your preschoolers up and moving and using the ten frame tool.  They will love hanging up the life size apples and practicing their counting and number bond skills with this activity!

Apple Themed Literacy Activities

“A is for apple” is one of the most popular answers I get when I ask my preschoolers what words they know that start with the letter A!   Keep the apple fun going with these fun apple themed literacy activities.  Here you will find interactive, engaging, and exciting activities that will practice many important foundational literacy skills for preschoolers.  Letter recognition, letter sounds, and word building are just a few of the many skills you will be able to explore!

1. Apple Theme Alphabet Stamp Activities for Preschool

Learning the letters of the alphabet is so much fun!  One skill that can be tricky for preschoolers though, is differentiating between upper and lowercase letters.  That is where Apple Theme Alphabet Stamp Activities for Preschool come in handy.  They provide great practice for telling the difference between upper and lowercase letters.  Just spin, identify the upper or lowercase letter and stamp away to letter mastery!

2. Free Blends Printable:  Apple Themed Sorting Mats

If you have a kindergartner or first grader who is working on consonant blends, this activity is the perfect one for them!  Free Blends Printable:  Apple Themed Sorting Mats are an interactive way to work on consonant blends.  Kids will love looking at the different pictures on the cards and deciding which blend mat to put them onto. The apple theme makes this a super cute and eye catching activity!

3. Free CVC Word Building Apple Tree

Building words has never been more fun!  This Free CVC Word Building Apple Tree activity is simple to set up, requires no additional materials besides the activity that you print, and is easily differentiated for learners of different levels.  Kindergartners will love practicing their CVC words with this adorable apple tree activity!

4. Free CVCE Word Building Apple Baskets

Keep the word building practice going with Free CVCE Word Building Apple Baskets!  It is so much fun to pick the apple letters and put them into the baskets to create a CVCE word that matches the picture cards.  This activity is perfect for any child working on the skill of CVCE words!

5. Free Alphabet Sorting Apple Trees

Free Alphabet Sorting Apple Trees is another fabulous activity for practicing letter recognition!  Simply print, cut, and laminate (optional!) and you are ready to go.  There are 26 different trees and letter sets with upper and lowercase letters, so no matter what letter (or combination of letters) you are wanting to practice, we have you covered!  Work on this activity by itself, or add it into our apple sensory bin to take this activity to another level!

6. Apple Preschool & Kindergarten Learning Pack

I have an amazing learning pack for you!  This Apple Preschool & Kindergarten Learning Pack is one pack with over 20 math and literacy activities.  Letter recognition, counting, graphing, and shapes are a few of the skills you can work on with these activities.  There are so many different skills you can practice with this pack that you will have enough activities to keep you busy all fall long!

More Apple Themed Literacy Activities

• Practice writing letters in an Applesauce Pre-Writing Tray.
• Work on beginning writing skills with this Apple Writing Activity.
• Check out this cute, printable I See Apples Emergent Reader.
• Hunt for letters in this Apple Tree Find and Cover Letter Mat.

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Apple Themed STEM Activities

Apples are like a mini science experiment all ready to go for you!  Apples can be used to teach many science concepts like seeds, the life cycle of a plant, and parts of a fruit.  There are also endless possibilities for science exploration and STEM activities using apples.  Check out a few of our favorite ideas here!

1. Apple Volcano Preschool Science Experiment

Volcanoes are a super easy and fun science experiment for preschoolers!  They love watching the baking soda and vinegar react together to make an amazing eruption right before their eyes!  This Apple Volcano Preschool Science Experiment is a great way to explore apples and make a fun volcanic eruption all in the same activity!

More Apple Themed Science Activities

• Can you identify the Parts of An Apple?
• Make a cute Apple Life Cycle Hat.
• Stack apples in this STEM Activity For Ten Apples On Top.
• Have you ever seen Dancing Apple Seeds?
• Create an apple maze in this Apple STEM Activity.
• Make apple boats in this Apple Sink or Float activity.
• Engineer an Apple Wrecking Ball.
• Balancing apples is super fun in this STEM Apple Balance.

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Apple Themed Sensory Activities

An apple is a fabulous sensory experience all by itself!  The smooth texture of the outside, the sweet smell, a fun crunching sound as you bite into it, and the delicious taste of an apple are just a few of the many ways you can explore apples with your senses.  Of course, we love apples so much that we can’t just stop there, we need more apple themed sensory activities.  The best sensory activities engage more than one sense, and with these apple themed activities you will experience just that!  You will find activities with fun scents, interesting textures, and eye catching images here in this list. 

4. Free Applesauce Valentine Printable for Kids

It may not be Valentine’s Day, but any day is a good day to put a smile on someone’s face, and this Free Applesauce Valentine Printable for Kids is sure to do just that!  An applesauce cup snack with this adorable label makes a great addition to any apple themed unit or activity that you are doing in your classroom or home!

5. Apple Theme Mess Free Finger Painting in a Bag

Painting in a bag is one of my favorite activities for toddlers!  This Apple Theme Mess Free Finger Painting in a Bag is the perfect way to create amazing, mess free artwork and participate in a wonderful sensory activity all at the same time!

6. Free Apple Orchard I Spy and Scavenger Hunt

We love going to the apple orchard every fall!   Apples, trees, and leaves are just a few of the many wonderful fall sights we see as we are walking around at the orchard.  This Free Apple Orchard I Spy and Scavenger Hunt takes the beautiful sights of the apple orchard and makes them into a fun counting and sensory activity!  The colorful, eye catching pictures are great for visual stimulation and the counting part of the activity is awesome for preschool math skill practice!

7. Apple Sensory Bin with Rice

Sensory bins are one of my favorite preschool activities!  They are super simple to set up and provide hours of fun and sensory stimulation for children.  This Apple Sensory Bin with Rice is full of brightly colored red, green, and yellow rice, as well as beans, pom poms, and other fun materials that kids can play in and make fun apple creations with.  Get ready for hours of apple sensory bin fun!

More Apple Themed Sensory Activities

• Apple Pie Sensory Bin is another great sensory bin option.
• Explore magnetic force with this Magnetic Apples Sensory Bin.
• Brightly colored apple scented pasta is the star of this Apple Scented Sensory Noodle bin.
• Kids will love playing with Apple Pie Slime.

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Apple Themed Fine Motor Skills Activities

Get ready for some fine motor skill, apple themed fun!  Holding an apple, picking up apple slices, squeezing an apple sauce pouch, and using a spoon to eat applesauce are all amazing activities for fine motor skills.  But even if you don’t have a real apple, there are plenty of other ways to use an apple theme to work on fine motor skills!  These activities will get your child’s finger and hand muscles moving and their critical thinking skills going all at the same time.  Creating patterns, manipulating play dough, and playing a fun fall game are some of the super exciting fine motor activities we have for you!

3. Printable Shape Apple Matching Game for Fall

There are so many benefits to playing games with preschoolers.  They promote taking turns, following a set of instructions, and thinking skills.  Games are also amazing for fine motor skill development!  Picking up cards requires preschoolers to use hand eye coordination and their fine motor skills.  This Printable Shape Apple Matching Game for Fall will have your preschoolers practicing their shapes and working on their fine motor skills at the same time!  Sounds like a win/win to me!

More Apple Themed Fine Motor Skills Activities

• Work on tracing skills with an Apples Pre-Writing Tracing Printable.
• Get moving inside with Gross Motor Indoor Apple Picking
• Practice scissor skills with Apple Cutting Strips.
• This Apple Toss is wonderful for gross motor skills and hand eye coordination.
• Learn colors and work on fine motor skills with Apple Color Clips.
• Apple Lacing is a great activity for fine motor skills.